Eddie Redmayne Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Character, People, Acting

• My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Mean, Eyebrows, Mind

• I love the variety of films. In theater, you go into a room and the director runs the room, so you all work to his or her method. On film, if an actor or an actress is in for a day or two, the director has to get out of that actor what they need, so they have to change and adapt to that actor's technique.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Running, Two, Technique

  Source: collider.com

• Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hate, Mistake, Actors

• I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Years, Two, Potters

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Political, Film, Film Set

  "Eddie Redmayne On ‘My Week With Marilyn,’ And Which Old Screen Legend He Would Have An Affair With". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

• I find that what doubt does, or fear, is it makes you come up with as many ideas as you possibly can. And on film that works 'cause you're then handing over that fear to the director, who has to make sense of all those options!

  Eddie Redmayne

  Ideas, Doubt, Directors

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Thinking, People, Theatre

• As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hollywood, Actors, Want

• If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Workout, Acting, Naked

• Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Real, Unique, Thinking

  "Eddie Redmayne On‘My Week With Marilyn,’ And Which Old Screen Legend He Would Have An Affair With" by Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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